The Internet has changed the way people look for information. Users now expect the answers to their questions to be available through a simple web search. Web search engines are i...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a new approach to web search personalization based on user collaboration and sharing of information about web documents. The proposed personaliz...
Abstract. Collaborative Web search (CWS) is a community-based approach to Web search that supports the sharing of past result selections among a group of related searchers so as to...
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
It is well known that anchor text plays a critical role in a variety of search tasks performed over hypertextual domains, including enterprise search, wiki search, and web search....
Donald Metzler, Jasmine Novak, Hang Cui, Srihari R...
SMS-based web search is different from traditional web search in that the final response to a search query is limited to a very small number of bytes (typically 1-2 SMS messages...
Jay Chen, Brendan Linn, Lakshminarayanan Subramani...
Web search is the dominant form of information access and everyday millions of searches are handled by mainstream search engines, but users still struggle to find what they are lo...
Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Michael ...
Extensive research activities are recently directed towards the Semantic Web as a future form of the Web. Consequently, Web search as the key technology of the Web is evolving towa...
Abstract Even the best information retrieval model cannot always identify the most useful answers to a user query. This is in particular the case with web search systems, where it ...
Web search is the main way for millions of users to access information every day, but we continue to struggle when it comes to finding the right information at the right time. In ...
Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Michael ...